What was the "Changsha Defence War" in the Southern Song Dynasty?

The New Year's Eve in A.D. 1276 should have been in Tanzhou (Changsha) City, where the Spring Festival was jubilant. At this moment, it's like a sea of fire here.

The Yuan Army led by Ali Haig has climbed the Tanzhou City Wall, and the persistence of 3,000 disabled soldiers for three months fell short.

300 helpless scholars from Yuelu Academy dropped their books and rushed out of the campus. How generous they are to cry and fight the enemy to the death.

Li Fu, the magistrate of Tanzhou, is at home at the moment. He called Shen Zhong, his confidant, hoping that he could kill his family and save them from being captured.

"I enrich the people with my home country" is a promise made by Li Fei to heaven and earth when he took office in Tanzhou a few months ago.

1July, 275, Li Fei, a native of Hengzhou (now Hengyang), went to Tanzhou to take office and completed the last journey in his life.

Before he left, his friends tried to dissuade him from going to Tanzhou. Because many officials and generals in Hubei have been demoted at this time, Xiangfan, a strategic place, has already fallen into the enemy. Thousands of Yuan warriors are eyeing up in the north. They are launching a large-scale attack and plan to push all the way to Tanzhou.

Before taking office, Li Fei cried and said to his old friend, "I owe my country for the first time, and now I am fortunate to use me. I want to make my country with my family."

Li Fei hasn't changed. He is still the magistrate in charge of the "Dazhi" in Qiyang County, and he is still the official who led 1300 people to break the Yongzhou thief's nest. Or the master of Xiangtan County, Deqing County and Wenzhou; It is still difficult for that country to assemble 3000 loyal militia ministers.

Passionate and loyal to the country, 1276 Li Fu still does.

But this time, can Tanzhou really hold on?

When Li Fei arrived, there were only 450 guards in Tanzhou, and most of them were old, weak and sick. Almost all the able-bodied men in the city went to help Lin 'an.

There are no reinforcements around, and countless people are going to blowing in the wind. It turned out that in the land of Hunan after that, apart from Tanzhou, the Yuan Army never encountered decent resistance.

Can I keep this?

Li Fu, together with local staff officers Yin Gu and Ting Yang, managed to recruit 3,000 people and won the support of local Miao people in Xiangxi. At their instigation, everyone has the intention of death. However, compared with tens of thousands of elite Yuan troops, their defensive strength is still not worth mentioning.

However, the soldiers and civilians in the city were willing to exhaust all the energy left in their lives and miraculously persisted for more than three months, which made the world look askance.

1September 276, tens of thousands of troops of Ali Haig, the right prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, surrounded Tanzhou City.

Jiangling, Changde, Ezhou and Hanyang have all been conquered. Can Tanzhou be far behind?

When the guns returned to the city again and again were thrown on the wall of Tanzhou City, when the Yuan army tried to climb the city again and again, it was Tanzhou soldiers and civilians who responded again and again.

"The people are old and weak, and they have to help without giving orders."

Without any orders, Tanzhou people stood on the wall with the old and weak to fight the enemy.

Li Fei bravely commanded the war. When there are no arrows, he collects folk feather fans. When there was no salt, he took the salt mat in the library and burned it to get salt. He ran around the city head again and again and personally bandaged the wounds of the soldiers again and again. He is polite to corporal, honest and clean, and there is no money left at home. When guarding the city, he often "stops with three drums and swells with five drums", and everyone thinks he is a god.

"Death and injury depend on each other, and people are still drinking blood and fighting in the city."

The soldiers and civilians in Tanzhou City, who are not battle-hardened veterans, are not fully armed loyal ministers of the Song Dynasty. They can only use the most stupid method, use their own blood and life, and use their thin bodies to resist the elite Yuan Army.

Those who came to surrender were killed by Li Fu, and the soldiers who tried to surrender for the lives of the people in the city were scolded by Li Fu. Tanzhou has no choice but to fight to the death.

When the Yuan army successfully occupied the city wall, the battle of Tanzhou ended in failure.

After all, 3000 down archers and Tanzhou elders can't resist the elite division.

During these three months, there was no Song Jun to rescue Tanzhou.

Staff officer Yin Gu and his students were martyred at Yuelu Academy. He drove his younger brother Yin Yuexiu out of the city, ordered him to preserve Yin's blood, and then faced Lin 'an. The whole family, old and young, set themselves on fire and died.

"I am grateful for the coldness of the old country and the unyielding friendship." From the birth of a poor child to a scholar, he became a magistrate and a teacher. Yingu looked back on his life like a lantern, and then used a fire to serve the country.

When the northwest corner of the city wall was destroyed, Yang Ting, a staff officer, led soldiers to fight the enemy in the street. On New Year's Eve, he drowned himself, but his wife and concubine couldn't save him. They all died.

Hearing this, Li Fei raised his glass to pay tribute to the hero. He called his loyal subordinate Shen Zhong, hoping that he could kill his whole family, including himself. Shen Zhong fell to the ground and refused. Under Li Fu's orders, Shen Zhong had no choice but to give Li Fu's family a drink with tears in his eyes and kill them after getting drunk.

Li Fei held his head high and stretched his neck to the edge of the cliff. There is no more glorious way to die.

After Shen Zhong killed Li Fu's family, he went home crying, killed his wife and children, burned down his home, and then drew his sword and cut himself.

Numerous officials in Tanzhou City committed suicide, and Tanzhou people heard that "many families committed suicide, and there were no empty wells in the city, more than those who planted trees."

This is honesty.

Ouyang Dao, a Tanzhou native, went to Ali Haig camp alone and risked his life to be outspoken in front of Ali Haig. After many considerations, Ali Haig gave up the slaughter and plunder, and the remaining people in Tanzhou were saved.

1May 276, Bo Yan army occupied Lin 'an without bloodshed. The Empress Dowager, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, the Emperor and the Maid-in-waiting formed a huge pleading group and went to the Yuan Dynasty to formally surrender.

Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Wen Tianxiang and others took two relatives of Zhao Songzong to the south to raise the flag again, but they still failed to hold the building. In the Battle of Yashan, Dasong really died.

Prime Minister Lu Xiufu jumped into the sea with his 8-year-old emperor on his back, and 65,438+10,000 soldiers and civilians committed suicide.

This is honesty.

When Tanzhou besieged the city, the readers of Yuelu Academy heard the sound of reading. The old and weak soldiers in Chengtou made a roar of killing the enemy with their thin bodies; Li Fu, Yingu, Yang Ting and other officials roared loudly when they were conducting in Chengtou.

These voices condense into a river, blend into the blood of our nation and become a part of us.

From 65438 to 0276, all the officials, people and army in Tanzhou burned their lives and defended the last dignity of this nation.

From1September 1939 to1February 1942, in Changsha, China people annihilated the Japanese army three times, with a total of 1 10000 people.

This unyielding city has also become a symbol of our national integrity.

Changsha and Hengyang were successively loyal ministers Li Fujian Temple, and the people still remember this loyal minister who died for his country.

There is a well-known Jia Taifu, and there is no one who does not sacrifice Li Tanzhou? Young Li

References:

Song Shi? Li feichuan

Song Shi? Yin Jiachuan "

Song Shi? Biography of yang ting